A Fable (Jane Taylor Poems)
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
It cannot beRose, violet, lily,Their crushed life should retain,Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,And thou distil to nothing, thou ...
Say prickly pears had roots which found out water,had branches bursting out in sulphur flame.Wanderers traipsing from a cracked sierramunched ...
HE found the long room as it was of old,Glimmering with sunset's gold;That made the tapestries seem full of eyesStrange ...
As Psyche-Life goes down to the shadesIn a translucent forest in Persephone's tracks,A blind swallow falls at her feetWith Stygian ...
As Psyche-Life goes down to the shadesIn a translucent forest in Persephone's tracks,A blind swallow falls at her feetWith Stygian ...
I know the secretOf a god-given brew ...Foam of ecstacySparkle of dew.But I have no flagon ...I still must yearnFor ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and ...
A TRUE STORYI I am a man who hath known trouble, O'Ruarc of the Lake. On my life's glass joy ...
A LEGENDARY TALE.NOW near drew the time when fair Ann was allow'd To visit her lover confin'd; To mingle ...
It was the hour of dawn, When the heart beats thin and small, The window glimmered grey, Framed in a ...
A map of every country known,With not a foot to call his own.A list of folks that kicked a dustOn ...
They stood, almost blocking the pavement,As though at a window display;The stretcher was pushed in position,The ambulance started away.Past porches ...
You did not know, — how could you, dear, —How much you stood for? Life in youRetained its touch of ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone; In his grotto the maiden sits alone. She gazes up ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
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